News & Happenings from Curry Construction

The Mattoon City Council approved the hiring of Curry Construction to add all-new chlorine and ammonia feed systems to the city’s potable water pump station and ground storage tank located at Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center in Mattoon. The project was bid for $328,643. Work is expected to start in (month) of 2020 and should…

The city is preparing to take the first step toward funding the construction of sewer lines that will connect to the new satellite facility on the north side of town. The City Council is set tonight to vote on a preliminary bond ordinance as part of the city’s application for an Illinois Environmental Protection Agency…

Flex-N-Gate is doubling the size of its plastics plant in Danville and adding at least 100 new workers. The News Gazette reports the auto parts maker, which has 118 employees at its plant on Lynch Rd., will add 60,000 square feet. The company owned by billionaire University of Illinois graduate Shahid Khan will get $1.2…

URBANA — The long-vacant site of a former hotel is finally being put to use. After the former Hanford Inn was torn down in 2015, truck service center JX Enterprises bought the lot and is expanding from its current location north of Urbana on U.S. 45. The new site at 2408 N. Cunningham Ave, U.,…

We captured a bird’s-eye view of improvements to the city of Monticello Wastewater Treatment Plant. (Drones are awesome, don’t you agree?) The plant pumps and system were causing several bottlenecks in the facility, keeping it from performing to its full potential. Parts of the facility, built in 1926, were original. Due to the aging infrastructure…